HeinOnline's Law Journal Library

Lexis has an extensive library of law journal articles, but its resources generally don't go back further than the 1980s. Articles from the Boston University Law Review are only available from 1982 to the present. The volumes of the Rutgers Law Review only date from 1992 onwards. Even Harvard Law Review articles have only been uploaded beginning with volume number 96, published in 1982.

If you're reviewing a brief or expert report that cites to law journal articles from the 1970s and earlier use HeinOnline's Law Journal Library. Hein has scanned and text searchable copies of hundreds of law review articles dating back to the 19th century. The Boston University Law Review's articles are available from 1921 onwards; Rutgers Law Reviews articles go back to 1947; and a full set of the Harvard Law Review from its first volume in 1887 can be downloaded. Articles published in recent years including 2018 are available for each journal as well.

Hein allows you download specific articles as individual PDFs.

Online Database of SCOTUS Decisions

The Washington University School of Law has posted an online database of decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States. An updated version of the database was released in August 2018. There is a case centered and a justice centered version of the database. The database contains 200 hundred data points for each decision issued since 1791. It's split into two parts: The modern database has decisions issued since 1946; the legacy version covers 1791 to 1945. The data can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet. It was formerly known as the Spaeth database.

Alternate forms of the database are posted with a row for each legal citation, each case docket, or each issue. The spreadsheet makes use of numeric codes, which are listed in the Codebook posted here.

In this example, I've filtered the spreadsheet by the code for Miranda warnings, 10100

There are other numeric codes for individual justices; the particular Article, Section, Paragraphs, and Amendments of the Constitution at issue; the court which is the source of the case; and several other fields.

You can search an online version of the database here. It presents the collected data for each case.

Recap All of PACER

The Free Law Project is a non--profit organization that has assembled an archive of all of the free court orders and opinions available on PACER. The RECAP archive allows you to search by case names, docket numbers, and several other fields. See: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/ .

The archive is updated on a daily basis.

One of the really neat things about the archive is that it allows you to run a full text search through all of the posted decisions. This is something that the to the best of my knowledge PACER doesn't allow you to do. You can search through the text of federal filings with Lexis Courtlink, but this requires a paid account.